Category: Back to School

Free First Week of School Lessons for ELA

Is there a bigger stress than planning the first week of school? You don’t know your students. It’s hard to judge how long activities will

4 Easy Substitute Teacher Lesson Plans for ELA

Teaching is one of those careers where taking a day off can be more work than your typical workday. Preparing lesson plans for a substitute

How to Plan a Unit for Your ELA Classroom

If you’ve ever looked over your standards for the year and wondered how you will ever get through them all, you’re far from alone. It

A Lesson Plan Format for Deeply Exploring Standards

A lot of times when we think about planning a unit, we imagine really wide, sweeping units over an entire genre, like nonfiction. Or you

How to Organize Your Classroom Library

I get asked all the time how to organize a classroom library! Honestly, this part was really fun for me when I was in the

Reading and Writing Activities for Back to School in Middle School ELA

Back to school is always a strange time of year. Getting to know brand new students. Adapting to changes in the new school year. Deciding

Using Back to School Stations in Middle School ELA

It seems like each year summer completely erases my brain. Like summer slide…but the teacher edition. As back to school inches closer, I used to

Best end-of-the-year activities for middle school ELA

Nothing quite brings me joy like prepping for end-of-the-year activities in middle school ELA. It’s that time of year that you can feel summer getting

Community Building Back to School Activities in Upper Elementary

Community Building Back to School Activities Your students are returning to school! Whether they are online or in-person, the first days of school are all

First Chapter Friday Middle School Book Recommendations and Resources |6th |7th | 8th |

I just finished creating a resource designed specifically for middle schoolers and middle school teachers to utilize and then easily implement First Chapter Friday in